8.26.2010

Palermo fires against Messi: "He is no leader"

Boca Juniors star Martin Palermo had the chance to play alongside Lionel Messi at the World Cup in South Africa, and made public one conclusion he arrived at: Messi is not a leader at all, therefore he could not lead Argentina to victory in the same way that Maradona did in 1986.

We must remember that Palermo scored his first world cup goal against Greece in South Africa, but the Barcelona star never found the net. As we know, Argentina was eliminated with a resounding 4-0 loss to Germany.

After the fail, Diego Maradona left his job as the Argentinian National Team coach and many newspapers were very critic at Messi. Now the South American team will have to wait until 2014 to give him a second chance.